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Peter Oborne

Peter Oborne is a journalist and author. His work includes The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism (2021).

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Peter Oborne’s Diary: Boris Johnson’s NHS lies, my bulging dossier of deceit, and Sunday Times suppression

Johnson says that he’s going to build 40 new hospitals but in reality only six have been allocated sufficient funding.

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Peter Oborne’s Diary: Boris Johnson’s NHS lies, my bulging dossier of deceit, and Sunday Times suppression

Wealth vanishment

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In this together: how the Lib Dems battled to restrain the Tory monster

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Think Britain is as corrupt as Russia? It’s time to get out more

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Who wants to be a millionaire? Peter Oborne on Tony Blair

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Peter Oborne on Lahore, Bill Deedes – and the days when the Telegraph had editors

Peter Oborne on Lahore, Bill Deedes – and the days when the Telegraph had editors

I've been called "brave" and even "heroic" for my resignation at the Daily Telegraph. But British journalism doesn't ask us…

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The terrorist who wasn’t

The terrorist who wasn’t

Vilified by the press and falsely branded a terror threat by Interpol, Tunisian-born Mohamed Ali Har

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